The Book or the Movie?

It's time to answer the age old question and settle the debate for good.

Based on a list of 2,275 books turned into movies on Goodreads, we gathered the book review score (from Goodreads) and the movie score (from IMDb) to ﬁnd out whether books really are better than movies. In each of these 6 views, you can see the top 50 books and movies according to the selected criteria. Take a look at our interactive graphic below to see how your favourite book compares to the movie, or vice versa.

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So will you be picking up that page-turner you’ve been eyeing or grabbing some popcorn and settling in for a movie night?

Methodology

Based on a list of 2,275 books turned into movies on goodreads, we gathered the book review score (from Goodreads) and the movie score (from IMDb). You can organise the data by highest movie score, lowest movie score, highest book score, lowest book score, books that scored much higher than the movies, and movies that scored much higher than the books. In each of these 6 views, you can see the top 50 books and movies according to the selected criteria.